The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Transcript: Mr George Bates talks about the Ancient Order of Foresters during the Great Depression 14/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Jack Healy recalls boyhood swimming rituals in the Georges River 29/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Jack Healy recalls training horses for the army in Liverpool in 1928 29/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Jack Healy remembers a local Aboriginal man from Williams Creek 29/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr James William Beale talks about his first job in the Liverpool telephone exchange 15/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr John Costa recalls his family feeding American Italian soldiers on their Liverpool farm during World War II 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr John Costa recalls the Green Valley post office 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr John Costa recalls the gypsies who were once common in the Liverpool area 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Joseph Bradshaw remembers being the proud owner of the second car in Liverpool, in 1927 15/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Joseph Bradshaw remembers working as a child on a farm in Liverpool 15/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Norman Woodward recalls growing grapes in Chipping Norton after World War II 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Norman Woodward recalls working conditions as a spinner during the Depression 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen recalls driving the police to accident scenes in his car in Liverpool 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen recalls the life saving club that patrolled the Georges River in the early 1930s 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen remembers using charcoal burners in cars during World War II 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Peter Granville-Smith describes his work at Liverpool telephone exchange in the early 1930s 29/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Peter Granville-Smith recalls his family singing in the little Union Church Hoxton Park 11/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Peter Serovich remembers the Austral Progress Association 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Stanley and Mrs Amy Everett remember their wine growing neighbours in Chipping Norton 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Stanley Everett remembers Chipping Norton in the early twentieth century 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Stanley Everett remembers making crystal radio sets as a child in Liverpool 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the dangers of swimming in the Georges River in the late 1920s 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the noted Australian artist Eric Wilson 10/12/2014 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr William Kennedy recalls collecting the dole at Liverpool Town Hall during the Depression 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mr William Kennedy remembers timber carting around Liverpool in the early twentieth century 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Amy Everett recalls moving to Chipping Norton during the Great Depression 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Carmel Amalfi describes a devastating hailstorm in Liverpool in the 1930s 11/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Carmel Amalfi describes her husband Angelo's work as a child on his father's farm in Liverpool in the 1930s 14/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Constance Jewell remembers economising with meals during the Depression 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Constance Jewell remembers social life in Hammondville during the Depression 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Dorothy Colburn recalls hazards associated with the Georges River 10/12/2014 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls Cracker Night in the early twentieth century near Bringelly 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls the Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers Liverpool's outdoor cinema 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Enid and Mr Carl Borowsky recall learning to swim in the Georges River in the 1920s 15/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Enid Borowsky recalls washing laundry in coppers and kerosene tins in the early twentieth century 15/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Enid Borowsky talks about working conditions in Liverpool's Challenge Woollen Mills 15/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers 'Old Joe', an Aboriginal man and his horse and buggy taxi service 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers hazards encountered while walking to school 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers surviving well during the Great Depression 19/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Florence Starr Gets Her Motorcycle License in 1925 26/11/2014 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Florence Starr recalls making garden stakes for Chinese market gardeners in Austral 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during WWII 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Lillian Watson recalls an American Air Force plane crash during World War II 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Lillian Watson remembers her arrival in Hammondville during the Depression 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Linda [Lyndon] Popple talks about Horningsea Park in Liverpool 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough knitting for the soldiers in WWI and WWII 29/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough mourns loss of old All Saints' Church, Liverpool 29/05/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0
Transcript: Mrs May Rae recalls her father's work for Challenge Woollen Mills, Liverpool 02/06/2015 CC BY-SA 2.0